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The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.
My work is never just fashion, landscape, or portraiture; it's always kind of an odd mixture of everything. I like muddling it together.
I always said I wanted to be a great athlete, ever since I was an overweight little kid. I just love competing in any kind of athletics.
You have to be careful what you imagine, because the act of imagining is the act of encouraging yourself to be a certain kind of person.
Music was all over my house, and all over literally my genetic house, and my house in the literal sense. So I kind of couldn't avoid it.
Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you know.
There is more than one kind of death? (Kat) Yes. Cowards aren’t the only ones who die a thousand deaths. Sometimes heroes do, too. (Sin)
My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.
There are these two kinds of gifts: a gift of material things & a gift of the Dhamma. Of the two, this is supreme: a gift of the Dhamma.
But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of a working week.
When somebody walks into a room they give off a certain kind of vibe or whatever and at that point that's how you're going to cast them.
The camera kind of finds things that the naked eye can't even see. By moving in a certain way, you're already telling part of the story.
Usually, I'm the kind of actor where you show me once or twice, I can do it. I don't do it creatively, but I know how to do the process.
I've never been the kind of person who would get up and wave my arms and scream and shout and say, 'Hey, listen to this, listen to this.
I'm a worst-case scenario person. I'm only interested in a story because I kind of go, like a magnet, to the worst thing that can happen.
Even people who like the kind of food on offer, are coming to recognize that eating from this food chain is not conducive to good health.
I went in to play the most corrupt politician I could possibly think of [in "The Congressman"] and to do it with a certain kind of charm.
I hope someday you see this is all life wants: for you to be your own kind of beautiful & not the kind that makes you forget who you are.
The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we have in mind.
What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?...The term was faith.
Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.
My take is that the kind of complexity which says we can always generate complexity from simple interactions following for example rules.
Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind.
It is the good fortune of the affluent country that the opportunity cost of economic discussion is low and hence it can afford all kinds.
The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?
I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.
Cultivate that kind of knowledge which enables us to discover for ourselves in case of need that which others have to read or be told of.
If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard to put things together.
When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.
I can't do movies where you start thinking "Where's the commercial appeal? How are we going to market this?" It's not that kind of party.
But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there.
So many people mentioned this at these rallies. You go to these things and it's kind of like an oldies concert. I mean, it's not hostile.
I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to do a reading, preparing.
Are we going to give up, or are we going to be the kind of people who stand up and do what it takes, even if we don't feel like doing it?
I was massively jealous but also excited when Tarantino did Inglourious Basterds, I'm a huge guys on a mission fan. Those kind of movies.
I've always felt kind of like an outsider, even when I was very successful back in the old days. Even then. I kind of enjoyed it, really.
Something about that whole process of building the structure of that game turned into a real kind of lightbulb moment for me as a writer.
Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again.
Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
I love music and I guess I have less expectations or pressure to kind of put on myself because the music hasn't been some huge sensation.
For me, it's always best to just push everything out and just disappear by myself alone somewhere - and it's kind of like a need of mine.
I've been in Los Angeles for a while, and the kind of psychological connection that one makes to people, it just doesn't happen out here.
It's kind of hard to keep going sometimes but you just have to believe in what you are and what you can do and that's the way to success.
There's a lot of different kinds of success. I'm so dedicated to the making of the art that the rest of my life atrophies, unfortunately.
I'm really open to doing music. We just have to figure out what kind of music it's going to be - something where I don't feel compromised.
Mental simulation is not as good as actually doing something. But it's the next best thing. And the right kind of a story is a simulation.
Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies.
I have had a very singular kind of life since I started working so young, so I am very used to traveling, working, taking time for myself.
You want to know if anyone's going to go see your film. You shouldn't worry about it or get hung up on it. So yea, you kind of monitor it.